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The US Embassy in Copenhagen has angered Danish veterans by removing flags honoring soldiers killed in Afghanistan from an area outside the building. https://cnn.it/4k6uaiR

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Screenshot of a TikTok video with error message at top saying “your video is under review and can’t be shared right now.”

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.

Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.

Well, here’s a link:

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CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely.
#Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

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The WSJ reports that the UN confirmed the authenticity of this message from Rutte.

Yep. Rice has a bacteria that is heat resistant if you let it sit out, but that twice-cooked rice is *better* for you (I mean, not so much the oil, lol), as your body digests it more slowly (with various benefits).

Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention The detained tribal members are experiencing homelessness and living under a bridge in Minneapolis.

Mind-boggling stuff: ICE has detained 4 Oglala men and is apparently demanding the Lakota--a nation of the continent's original inhabitants--“enter into an immigration agreement with ICE." www.twincities.com/2026/01/13/i...

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Interesting! On the west coast we have a Pink Pearl apple that has a kind of pink marble flesh. It’s somewhat similar in flavor to a Pink Lady.

Love teaching this book.

Subject Tags - Commonplace Browse by Subject

Are you finalizing a syllabus and looking for short, accessible articles to assign on some aspect of American history before 1900? Did you know that Commonplace has a subject tags page that allows you to easily browse our 25 year back catalog? Check it out here: 🗃️

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Apply for a Clements Library Fellowship - UM Clements Library

@ajhasocial.bsky.social Please spread the word about the Charles R. Eisendrath Fellowship at the Clements Library. The fellowship supports research on the relation of journalism to US history before 1900 in both pictorial and written reportage and commentary. See clements.umich.edu/research/fel...

Yo Los Angeles! LA Taco is not only the best reporting on where the most amazing food in town is hiding, they have been way out in front of everyone with their reporting on ICE and CBP thugs.

This is the kind of independent, local, media we all need to support. I'm proud to be a member.

Right. I saw this. Was curious if you saw something more specifically about PUP’s process here — but thanks for responding!

Do you have any evidence of that? Genuinely asking as I’m seeing the critiques. Did PUP not get peer reviews for the MS in publishing?

Fascinating thread on a canary in the coal mine —

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Last year CPP established a Digital Humanities Consortium. It’s been an exciting space for collaboration on topics from digital storytelling & community archiving to approaching AI with intentionality. Follow on Instagram (@dhc_cpp) or LinkedIn for virtual events in 2026! 🍾

In 2025, the Digital Humanities Consortium @ CPP brought technology and the humanities together through impactful workshops, hands-on learning, and student & faculty fellowships!

💡 Skill-building workshops

🤝 Interdisciplinary collaboration

🎓 Fellowships supporting innovation in tech + humanities

They might say no, but ask. Show them the email that it seemed to have been submitted. Seriously, do it. You just don’t know how in/flexible they will be; people vary, even in unis. I know I’m not the only person replying who has been on many search committees. It’s possible! Rooting for you! 🤞🙏👊

Berkeley Talks: The Page Act and the making of racialized US immigration control - Berkeley News A panel of UC Berkeley scholars unpack how the 1875 law helped institutionalize racially targeted exclusion at the border and laid the groundwork for the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and later U.S. immi...

I moderated a discussion of the Page Act of 1875 with Catherine Ceniza Choy, Cybelle Fox, and Leti Volpp in April. You can now watch a video of the event!

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More like Project 1625

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

Episode 428: Jessica Lepler, America’s Forgotten Quest to Link Two Oceans In the 1820s, Americans dared to dream big. They believed they could cut a canal through the wild, rain-soaked terrain of Nicaragua. This is their story.

Podcast Alert! I had so much fun chatting with @lizcovart.bsky.social about the history of 1820s interoceanic Canal Dreamers. The @bfworld.bsky.social podcast episode went live today! What a great last day of classes treat. @uncpress.bsky.social 🗃️
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An early Christmas present for all you Court of Requests fans. *All* the calendared Elizabethan proceedings [TNA REQ 2/26-294], over 20,000 items in total, are now searchable on The National Archives' online catalogue. Ho ho ho 🎄 discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C...

HOPE WALZ: “What world are we f*cking living in? I draw the line at Gus. You people are f*cking disgraceful.”

She says MAGA loyalists are now driving by their home and yelling “R*tard!” at her family and her special needs brother after Trump called GovTimWalz the R word.

Local police investigating ICE after video appears to show agent drive over detained man’s foot The incident in Vancouver, Washington caused the 27-year-old man to scream in agony.

ICE should not be free to inflict this kind of pain and suffering on innocent immigrants. This doesn’t make anyone safer.

Republicans must join Democrats in calling for oversight, accountability, and serious restraint.

I literally cannot tell if this is satire or not. Then again, if you’d shown me a picture of the current White House a year ago, I would also think it was satire.